Comments on: HEY RAPIDS MAN IS THAT FISH DEAD? http://thisisflydaily.com/2009/12/23/is-it-dead/ This is Fly Magazine Sun, 09 May 2010 10:39:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: JK http://thisisflydaily.com/2009/12/23/is-it-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-45 JK Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:25:11 +0000 http://thisisflydaily.com/?p=754#comment-45 It was actually a mechanical fish... so no fish were harmed in the making of this movie. For years you could go to Seeley Lake, Montana to see the "fake fish" from the movie. I am not sure if it is still there. This is an excerpt from Montana Pioneer interviewing John Dietsch about his work with the movie, "....as it were, so that a major motion picture shot by a superstar like Redford might authen-tically convey the author’s vision to the entire world. That meant teaching actors how to credibly represent, in the fly fishing sense, the reality-based characters in Maclean’s book, and choreographing realistic fly fishing scenes, some of which, as it turned out, required the use of a mechanical fish.Dietsch was originally brought into the project as a consultant to help Redford with various aspects of fly fishing depicted in the screenplay." http://www.mtpioneer.com/2009-August-cover-river.html It was actually a mechanical fish… so no fish were harmed in the making of this movie. For years you could go to Seeley Lake, Montana to see the “fake fish” from the movie. I am not sure if it is still there.

This is an excerpt from Montana Pioneer interviewing John Dietsch about his work with the movie,
“….as it were, so that a major motion picture shot by a superstar like Redford might authen-tically convey the author’s vision to the entire world. That meant teaching actors how to credibly represent, in the fly fishing sense, the reality-based characters in Maclean’s book, and choreographing realistic fly fishing scenes, some of which, as it turned out, required the use of a mechanical fish.Dietsch was originally brought into the project as a consultant to help Redford with various aspects of fly fishing depicted in the screenplay.”

http://www.mtpioneer.com/2009-August-cover-river.html

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